ABSTRACT
This chapter examines Dentro le mie mani le tue: Tetralogia di Nightwater four-part narrative inspired by the death of Castaldi's own mother and organized around the repetition of a number of core events, images, and affects related to loss and death, set against a backdrop of natural catastrophes, migrations, violence, and war. Ettinger's theory of subjectivity is supported by analytic and artistic practices aimed at making the matrixial visible and repairing trauma, it is relevant to Castaldi's ethico-aesthetic engagement with a maternal that is bound up with the European events and traumas that underpin her characters' lives: The Holocaust, World War II, migrations, and racism. The chapter proposes a reading of the first three parts as an artistic operation that makes visible through repetition the matrixial borderspace occupied by personal affects and trauma, and of as a process of collective symbolization of those affects and metramorphosis, while identifying Castaldi's matrixial ethics/aesthetics.
